Perform three sets of 10 three times a day.
Exercises for hip surgery patients.
Your surgeon or therapist will tell you how much weight to put on your leg.
2 lie on your back with your knees bent in a 10 to 15 degree angle.
Hold this bent knee position for 15 seconds and repeat the bend 10 times.
Don t let your knee roll inward or outward.
Stand comfortably and erect with your weight evenly balanced on your walker or crutches.
At first you will walk with a walker or crutches.
Squeeze your buttock muscles together as if you are holding in flatulence.
Call your surgeon if.
Repeat 10 times 1 set.
Repeat 10 more times.
Recovery after surgery.
Gently point and pull ankle of your surgical leg by pumping foot up and down.
The majority of patients are able to.
Lying down on the bed slide the heel of one foot up toward your buttocks.
Rest and elevate lie down with your legs at the level of your heart for at least 20 minutes.
Total hip replacement.
You can do this exercise 3 or 4 times a day.
Ankle pumps lie on your back.
Your goal is to achieve a bent knee with your heel remaining on the bed.
To see the full benefit of hip replacement therapy will be a necessary part of the rehabilitation process.
Therapy can reduce swelling decrease pain improve range of motion build strength challenge balance and develop endurance.